Soft Skills, The Tangible Value of the Drama Curriculum
Created by Matt Webster
This course is about the fact that so-called soft skills are sought after and highly valued in professional work environments, educational settings, and in everyday social interactions. They're valuable life skills, but we can't always identify these skills within a standard educational setting, and yet, they are incredibly useful in education and beyond. That's why it's important to be able to identify these soft skills in the classroom and in the educational process and to recognize that these soft skills are being taught every day in the drama curriculum. We need to concentrate our efforts into making sure that these skills are identified and utilized within our classrooms. They are built into every arts curriculum a school offers, especially the theater arts.
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0Module 0Introduction6:50 FREE PREVIEWThis module introduces the course and gives an outline as to how the modules will help identify those soft skills and where we find them in the theater curriculum.
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1Module 1Soft Skills vs Hard Skills7:43 FREE PREVIEWThis module is an examination of the difference between soft skills and hard skills and the places in the curriculum where these different skills are taught.
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2Module 2Standards and Requirements in the Drama Classroom7:31 LockedThis modules looks at educational standards and requirements in the theater arts curriculum and how those standards are connected to soft skills.
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3Module 3Teaching vs. Learning19:16 LockedThis module is an examination of some specific drama classroom activities and the understanding of how those activities teach soft skills.
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4Module 4Identification and Advocacy5:13 LockedThis module talks about why it's important to present the soft skills we teach to administrators and how it benefits our programs.
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5Module 5Wrap Up2:26 LockedThis module wraps up the course.
Standards Addressed
Improvisation Drama 10
Improvisation Drama 30
Acting Drama 20
Acting Drama 30
Movement Drama 10
Playwriting - Drama 20
Improvisation/Acting Level III - Advanced
Junior Goal II Objectives
Junior Goal III Objectives
Junior Orientation
- communicate through use of voice and body
- demonstrate trust by becoming comfortable, physically and emotionally, with others
- listen effectively
- meet deadlines and follow through on individual and group commitments
- offer and accept constructive criticism, given specific guidelines, with a desire to improve
- recognize the purposes of and participate in warmup activities
- speak, move, and generate ideas spontaneously
- support positively the work of others
- work cooperatively and productively with all members of the class in pairs, small groups and large groups
Improvisation/Acting Level I - Beginning
Junior Goal I Objectives
- develop a positive self-image
- develop a sense of responsibility and commitment
- develop self-confidence
- develop self-discipline
- extend the ability to explore, control and express emotions
- extend the ability to think imaginatively and creatively
- extend the ability to understand, accept and respect others- their rights, ideas, abilities and differences
Theatre Studies Level II - Intermediate (Theatre History)
Senior Goal I Objectives
- demonstrate a sense of inquiry and commitment, individually and to the group
- demonstrate a sense of responsibility and commitment, individually and to the group
- demonstrate respect for others-their rights, ideas, abilities and differences
- demonstrate the ability to contribute effectively and constructively to the group process
- demonstrate the ability to recall and use sensory information
- develop a positive and realistic self-image
- extend understanding of, acceptance of and empathy for others
- increase self-confidence
- increase self-discipline
Senior Goal II Objectives
Orientation Drama 10
- cope with success and failure in positive ways
- demonstrate self-discipline, self-direction and a sense of responsibility
- demonstrate trust by becoming comfortable with others, physically and emotionally
- display consideration and respect for self and others
- positively support the work of others
- work cooperatively and productively
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